poetrie

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Now therfore it shal not be amisse, first to way this latter sort of poetrie by his workes, and then by his parts, and if in neither of these Anatomies hee be condemnable, I hope we shall obteine a more favourable sentence.

The Encomion of Lady Pecunia, etc., in which are two songs (“If music and sweet poetrie agree,” and “As it fell upon a day”) also included in The Passionate Pilgrim, an unauthorised collection, and which were long attributed to

This was a very necessary deuise of the Poet and a fine, besides his poetrie to play also the Phisitian, and not onely by applying a medicine to the ordinary sicknes of mankind, but by making the very greef it selfe (in part) cure of the disease.

But ther is a nature peculier, eyther to hym or him, that properly belõgeth either to thys man or that, as if a man wolde saye some menne to be borne to disciplines mathematical some to diuinitie, some to rethorike some to poetrie, and some to war.

It was the Gentiles oratorie, yet not without the Holy Ghost’s rhetorick, that did almost perswade Agrippa to be a Christian; and it was the Gentiles poetrie, but not without a Deitie in the verse, that taught the Athenians to know an unknown God.

Chained_bear, a quick Wordie search of "jabberwocky" shows the word itself on lots of "fun to say" lists, but none specifically relating to the poem. So believe it or not, it appears that you'd be the first!

This is awesome. I had been thinking about doing something like this with "Jabberwocky," but I figured it must have been done fifteen times already (it has, right? ... Right?!). And I'm not a huge poetry fan so I didn't think I'd come up with anything nifty enough. Love reading these, though!

A Wordie list in which the description contains the full text of a favorite poem. Words of interest are highlighted in blue, and also added below, as items in the list. The Poetrie is meant as a way to share poems with others, and provides a designated place to discuss them on the site. See the first one for an example. See also tunie to see how this concept can be applied to songs. Feel free to create your own!

The master list of all known Poetries is a good place to find them; make sure you add yours to the list if you do make one of your own!